APEGS Competency-Based-Assessment
If you are an engineer willing to work in the Canadian province,
Saskatchewan, then reading this blog will be your best time investment. Here,
we will familiarize you with the APEGS Competency-based
assessment in some detail.
The better you know this system, the more effective the CBA report
you can prepare to attain the license as an engineer. The CBA system came into
operation on the 1st of January, 2019 for engineers-in-training.
What is
APEGS Self-assessment or Competency-based assessment, also called CBA?
Before attaining a license, an engineering candidate has to show
their capability of practicing engineering. It is the responsibility of the
applicant to show proof that they have, using experience, a satisfactory
capability to work as an engineer at a professional level.
Some of Canada’s engineering capability assessors or engineering
regulators have used or are moving towards using competency-based assessment of
engineering experience. For that, a multi-year, Pan-Canadian competency-based
evaluation project was taken with participation from engineering regulators in
many provinces. Engineers &
Geoscientists of British Columbia (BC) developed the online competency
assessment system, which was adapted for utilization by other Canadian
regulators.
In the Annual Meeting conducted in May 2018, the APEGS
membership unanimously accepted this new system to assess experience, which
came into effect on 1, January 2019.
The system applies to professional engineering applicants to APEGS,
which is engineers-in-training and engineer-in-training international graduate
candidates provided with the experience review option to waive confirmatory
exams.
What are
Competency-based assessment or CBA benefits?
Competencies are the knowledge, measurable skills, capability, and
traits that are necessary for professional registration shown using the action
and behaviors of the candidate.
CBA facilitates a more quantitative evaluation of candidates using
a more exact measurement system than the current APEGS experience review
guidelines.
It is a more clearly described and defined measuring tool to
evaluate licensure readiness.
Competency-based assessment makes the evaluation more transparent,
objective, and consistent and boosts the confidence of everybody taking part in
the process, including validators, applicants, evaluators, and employers on the
Experience Review Committee.
APEGS
Competency-based assessment description:
The APEGS competency-based
assessment framework uses 7 competency categories. These categories are a total
of 34 skills or competencies:
1. Communication
(3 competencies)
2. Team
effectiveness (2 competencies)
3. Project
and financial management (5 competencies)
4. Technical
competency (10 competencies)
5. Personal
continuing professional development (CPD) (3 competencies)
6. Economic,
social, environmental, and sustainability (5 competencies)
7. Professional
accountability (6 competencies)
These 7 categories represent the areas in which professional
engineers of every discipline must be capable of ensuring effective practice
and public safety. Every competency category mentioned here has a list of key
competencies required in that area.
Attainment of each category is assessed via a competency rating
scale outlining 6 different competency levels (0-5). A candidate who wants to
be successful has to fulfill each of the competency requirements in each
category at a minimum level of 1 on the competency rating scale while attaining
the necessary minimum category average ‘entry to practice’ rating level (2-3),
which is dependent on the category.
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